Hampden AE 116

Today I received the book "The Hampden File" by Harry Moyle and was thrilled to find a picture of Hampden AE 116 being recovered after crashing at Waddington.

AE 116 was my fathers aircraft and that night they had been on a mine laying trip to Copenhagen. The duration of the flight was 9.35 hours and they ran out of fuel while attempting too land.

All of the crew survived the crash and the aircraft was repaired and returned to service and converted to a torpedo bomber with 489 Squadron until being struck of charge June 9th 1944.

[Larry]

Harry Moyle's book was the first Air Britain (AB) book I bought, as I could not put it down when I saw it in a book shop about 17 years ago.

He was a very kind and helpful air historian and was the specialist on the Hampden for Air Britain. He recruited me in to the Society.

As I have a fascination for the Hampden I was thinking of doing a photo gallery of Hampden photos for AB as a tribute to him.

Has anyone got any Hampden photos they could share?

It truly is a wonderful fact filled book for those that have an interest in Hampdens.